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Exam accommodations

StephMW

I wonder if anyone has advice please.  My daughter, 17, has recently been diagnosed with autism by the NHS after years of waiting.  She has impending A Levels and one of the accommodations proposed was extra exam time due to her not understanding inference and having processing difficulties as a result of which she struggles with exam questions and the way they are worded.  The school are saying ‘no’ to extra time because it is not her usual way of working.  Does anyone have any experience with this please? Thanks in advance Pray tone1

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  • 25% extra time is usually a standard accomodation for SEN. They may need to provide evidence of her difficulties with processing speed. I'm surprised the school are saying no. I'd understand with other accomodations, it is supposed to be normal way of working. But exams are not normal circumstances and processing is harder under pressure. Surely they did mocks etc to be able to show she'd struggle in exam circumstances. I would be asking for a meeting to discuss it personally. Did she have accomodations at GCSE?

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  • 25% extra time is usually a standard accomodation for SEN. They may need to provide evidence of her difficulties with processing speed. I'm surprised the school are saying no. I'd understand with other accomodations, it is supposed to be normal way of working. But exams are not normal circumstances and processing is harder under pressure. Surely they did mocks etc to be able to show she'd struggle in exam circumstances. I would be asking for a meeting to discuss it personally. Did she have accomodations at GCSE?

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